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...crews got off the mark last week, a brassièred and bewigged M.I.T. crew, which had been hiding upstream, joined the fun long enough to come skimming between them. Then Harvard pulled off to a one-length lead, and coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight...
With the help of man-made ladders and elevators, the Chinook managed to get over Bonneville (170 feet high), but was stopped cold by the 553-ft. Grand Coulee Dam 450 miles farther upstream. In the last three years, Grand Coulee (aided by river pollution and other liabilities of civilization) has cut the Chinook population in half. And the salmon's troubles are only beginning. The Army and the Department of the Interior have high-priority postwar plans to build eight more great dams on the Columbia-which might mean the fish's finish...
...Bridge. The Japs had blown the upstream bridges, and were all set to blow the Jones Bridge, nearest the Bay. Lieut. James P. Sutton. a Navy demolition expert, went out on the bridge and removed the detonators from sixty 110-lb. bombs. A few troops got across, but before additional units could be rushed to their support the enemy succeeded in blowing the bridge, anyway. It took days to get the next elements of the 37th across in small boats and "alligators...
Everyone knew the big day had come. The excitement even awakened the Male-mutes that snooze on the boardwalk before the town's false-front stores. There was open water under the big railroad bridge half a mile upstream; that meant the Tanana River jam was breaking...
...Green Bay, off northern Michigan, where smelts grew thickest, fishermen caught them through holes in the ice in winter, dipped them out of streams with nets when they swam upstream to spawn in spring. A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them...